I don't have a history of calling things dumb, but you wrote this:
> admins create these highly specific instances with peculiar rules, and people who want to create a profile there have to submit themselves to a highly limited set of conversations and content they can publish. what if I feel strongly about some geopolitical topic yet those kind of conversations are banned on my "LEGOholics" instance?
You then proposed two things that don't make sense to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
> admins create these highly specific instances with peculiar rules, and people who want to create a profile there have to submit themselves to a highly limited set of conversations and content they can publish. what if I feel strongly about some geopolitical topic yet those kind of conversations are banned on my "LEGOholics" instance?
You then proposed two things that don't make sense to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
I called it like I see it.